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Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) has released her language for the derivatives portion of the bill overhauling financial regulation. I’ve gone through the

In order to secure the passage of the Status of Forces Agreement, the Maliki government had to agree to a Sunni-driven demand for a popular referendum on

Earlier today, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) introduced legislation to block the EPA from using the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse emissions from

In a story more baroque than could have been imagined, The New York Times reports that Kyle Dusty Foggo, a senior former CIA official and key figure in the

More than 600 conservatives attended the second annual Americans for Prosperity weekend conference, bringing activists together and supplying them with tools and talking points.

From The Hartford Courant: U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd has been diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer. Dodd is scheduled to undergo surgery during

Via Patrick.net, here’s more about how some banks abandoned their foreclosed properties and left innocent neighbors to deal with the blight. And no, this isn’t

Yesterday, it was Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass,), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, blaming mortgage servicers for a failure to modify loans,

One in five New Mexicans, or about 20.7 of the state’s population, are on food stamps, according to the U.S.

After the jump, a slideshow of photos from the first day of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.

Richard Nixon is perhaps the best-known outed liar in history.

That’s what some AIDS advocates are asking following the launch of a new AIDS prevention effort from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according

Since George W. Bush took office, commercial banks have more than doubled their annual federal lobbying budgets, to great effect. In addition to securing a

BOSTON -- This, from the Boston Globe, provides a little evidence of how Democratic candidate Martha Coakley’s lackluster campaign (not even the people

Oil spill claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg was on the agenda to appear today before the Senate Agriculture Committee.

Attorney General Eric Holder just announced that he will seek the death penalty for the five 9/11 terror suspects. They will be tried in a New York federal

On Friday, I asked a Republican Hill staffer what had been happening with Rep. Eric Cantor’s (R-Va.) high-profile effort to re-brand* the Republican Party since

Two bills pending before the Michigan House of Representatives that would diminish the unemployment benefits for tens of thousands of Michigan residents are drawing strong criticism from the National Employment Law Project, a group that advocates for the unemployed. The first bill, HB 4781, is sponsored by Rep

In the brief period since the release of Ayman al-Zawahiri’s House Negro tape, bloggers have gone crazy celebrating the U.S.’s free-of-charge good fortune.

The trouble facing Democrats as they continue to push for health care reform is that, in a country of roughly 300 million people, almost 260 million already